4118 East Madison Street, Seattle, WA 98112

Hours of Operation: 10am-6pm every day.

We are open on Halloween and participating in the annual Friends of Madison Park trick-or-treating event.

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The Mad Book Club:

We are a community-based book club organized by the bookstore. We choose twelve books at the beginning of each year, loosely organized around a theme, and each month’s book is available beforehand for purchase at Madison Books. We meet the last Wednesday of every month at 6:30pm (unless this conflicts with a holiday, in which case we adjust the meeting date) at our neighboring small business, Parlour Wines.

The theme for 2026 is Works in Translation. Our meeting times for the rest of the year are as follows:

October 28: We Do Not Part, Han Kang

November 25: If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler, Italo Calvino

December 30: A Wild Sheep Chase, Haruki Murakami

Upcoming Book Events:

October 22: Ilona Bray will give an author talk at Horizon House at 7:30pm on her book, Cat Takes Queen, an engaging middle reader book about a chess-playing cat.

November 4: David Jepsen will give an author talk at The Seattle Tennis Club at 6pm on his book, Unbelonging: A Novel, a work of historical fiction set in Seattle in 1945.

November 12: Celeste Garcia will give an author talk at The Seattle Tennis Club at 6pm on her book, AI Baby: A Novel, an entertaining story that also brings up philosophical questions about AI.

Come by the store and read the full-length recommendations put together by our team about a select few of our favorite reads of 2026.